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NEWS Victoria aims for off-the-job apprentice training VICTORIAN and Tasmanian printers may be able to send their apprentices to accredited off-the-job training this year, with industry leaders hoping to announce a new centre to be hosted by a leading TAFE in conjunction with the Victorian and Tasmanian Printing Industry Training Action Committee. Committee member and managing director of Eastern PIAA to run SGP programme AUSTRALIA’S southern states are set to become the first to launch their 2013 industry training calendars with the major event being the Sustainable Green Print (SGP) programme. Bruce Lowery, Victoria and Tasmania member services manager, Printing Industries says the SGP is one of the most influential initiatives to impact the industry in recent years. Lowery says, “I’ve been intimately involved with the implementation of the SGP program since it began about four years ago. We now have over 40 Victorian and Tasmanian companies who are either already fully certified, or have completed the training and are awaiting their final audit visit.” He continues, “Without exception, all have found that the resulting benefits have exceeded their expectations. Not only have they made their workplaces healthier and safer environmentally, they have also realised significant efficiency and productivity improvements along the way.” Studios Roy Aldrich told Australian Printer, “Victorian members of the PIAA have made it clear to us that they want fully fledged off-the-job training for their apprentices, so that is what we will deliver.” The announcement will be made following meetings between the Training Action Committee, the PIAA and the TAFE. Aldrich expects there will be an initial intake of around 200 apprentices, which he says will rise to 500 fairly quickly. No date has yet been set for the start of the programme, but the Committee expects the as yet un-named TAFE to be ready to take apprentices in the next couple of months. It says it already has equipment lined up, knows where the teachers are, and has the course work necessary. It will initially offer courses in offset, flexo, prepress, and bindery and finishing. Ron Patterson, who until recently was the PIAA’s national marketing manager and Victorian state manager, and who has been a major force in negotiations with the TAFE, and the RMIT for three years before it says, “We believed that the industry itself could offer the best solution for off-the-job training, and that is what we will have.” Queensland printers hit by floods again THE monster floods afflicting Queensland have hit print businesses in the sunshine state, with some underwater for the second time in less than two years. Some 7500 people were displaced in Bundaberg, 200 homes have been damaged and businesses have gone under water as the city was hit by the worst ever flood in its history. Among those struggling to battle back the water was Classic Design and Print, which recovered from the Queensland floods in 2011 but has once more been inundated. Garry May, managing director, Coral Coast Printing told Australian Printer, “We are fortunately one of the lucky ones who have not been affected by the floods but I have to say my thoughts are with all those that are, especially Classic Design and Print which went under in 2011 and started business again after the disaster, but has now once more been affected. It is really hard for them, and my thoughts are with them. If the same had happened to me I would give up. It is really devastating” Another printer underwater in Bundaberg was The Sticker Company, administration assistant Kellie Pollock told Australian Printer, “The Bundaberg facility is underwater and everything is damaged, it is a sad sight.” Some have survived. Shane Robertson, managing director, Trakka Screen Prints told Australian Printer, “There is water behind and under our building but there is still about half a metre or so before it starts coming into the driveway. It has been devastating for everyone in Bundaberg and we are one of the lucky ones.” Securency sold to Brits as RBA exits UK based Innovia Films is now the sole owner of banknote printer Securency International after purchasing the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) 50 per cent share in the company. The two parties have had a joint venture partnership in Securency since 1998. The deal for an undisclosed sum is being funded from Innovia’s existing cash reserves and is expected to be complete by the end of February. Philippe Etienne, CEO, Securency told Australian Printer, “We’re pleased that Innovia have demonstrated their confidence in Securency and its product in such emphatic fashion. “They have been part of the Securency story as a shareholder and as a supplier and are a well-resourced global company that we feel is an ideal parent to support Securency’s continued growth as the world’s most sophisticated and innovative banknote substrate.” Securency is currently embroiled in corruption allegations, with senior management under the microscope for its dealings across south east Asia. 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